Drupal CMS: Create people profiles
Learn to pull some data from ÂÒÂ×Ðã Profiles into a Drupal People Profile page.
Instructions
In Drupal we will continue to pull some basic people data from ÂÒÂ×Ðã Profiles. This includes the person's title, name, job title, department, faculty as well as basic contact information and a link to their individual profile on ÂÒÂ×Ðã Profiles
Our policy is to support ÂÒÂ×Ðã People profiles (not specially created Drupal pages) to ensure a single source of truth about academic staff and their publications. The staff profile does not appear in the left menu but will appear in a people section e.g ucl.ac.uk/site-name/people/staff-name
Staff and website editors can add additional Drupal content and links in the flexible sidebar space on the right. All other data comes directly from ÂÒÂ×Ðã Profiles and should be maintained in RPS as before.
Please note: Any changes made on a ÂÒÂ×Ðã Profiles page can take up to 24 hours to to reflect on the Drupal page.
Step 1 - get the UPI from the ÂÒÂ×Ðã Staff DirectoryÂ
- Go to the ÂÒÂ×Ðã Staff Directory Service. You need to be logged in to view the individual's UPI
- Search for the researcher using their name and copy their UPI from their profile
Step 2 - create a People profile page in Drupal
- Click on Content and then Add content and then select 'People profile'Â
- Under 'Title' add the researcher's name
- Under 'UPI' add the UPI of the researcher which you should have copied from the staff directoryÂ
- Add any extra information in the Sidebar (this will appear below the information from the ÂÒÂ×Ðã Profiles)
- Click save, this will save a draft of the page
Step 3 - link the profile page to the researcher
- Ensure you are in editing mode
- Go the page where you have the name of the researcher
- Select the name
- Create an internal link to the researcher. Please see the how to guide for hyperlinking if you need guidance
- Save and/or publish the page
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